VValentine's Day falls on the same day as Spring Festival

Since Valentine's Day falls on the same day as Spring Festival this year, most young lovers will seize the chance for that scary first encounter with the future in-laws - but for Xiao Yi and Liu Xing, this remains an extravagant hope. They both hold respectable jobs with good salaries. They are devoted to each other and rarely argue. They were born on the same day and wear the same sized shoes...

There is a formula for finding true love

Romantics looking for everlasting love will swoon over a new love equation released just in time for Valentine's Day and which can calculate the right age to fall in love. The equation nicknamed the "Fiancee Formula" was created by an Australian mathematics professor and works by factoring in the age at which you start looking for a long-term partner and the absolute oldest age you would consi...

How to avoid a similar fate

Even though classes have been out at most of Beijing's universities for over a month, seniors can still be seen haunting campus, cafeterias and dorm buildings, many avoiding a similar fate that they all dread: parents probing questions about their love lives. None of your business Spring Festival is usually the time when children proudly tote their sweethearts back home for "inspection and ap...

High fashion reaches out

High fashion is no longer limited to clothing but is becoming a multi-sensory experience in itself, with the opening of more and more restaurants and cafes, hotels, spas, florists and furniture stores by luxury fashion houses around the world. The trend first started in Milan, where people can find Bvlgari's hotel, Dolce & Gabbana's restaurant, Roberto Cavalli's cafe and Armani's florist. ...

The generation of Chinese born in the 1980s start to make their mark on Chinese society

The generation of Chinese born in the 1980s, when China reformed and opened itself up, are coming of age and starting to make their mark on Chinese society. As China's economy rapidly developed over the last three decades, so have the expectations of 1980s generation, the first generation of country's single-child families to enter the workforce. They grew up with dreams of becoming the next b...

Going green tasted so good

While the closest thing most students get to gardening is stealing virtual vegetables on kaixin001.com, 28-year-old Shi Yan, a Ph.D candidate in agriculture at Renmin University of China (RUC), is going organic, promoting eco-agriculture and healthy living by bringing co-op vegetable farming to China. Organically inspired Located in Houshajian village, Haidian district, Beijing, Shi runs the ...

persistence and a discerning eye that can discover the real beauty.

Bus trips, motorbike adventures and hikes. When you travel in Cambodia, you need more than a pair of sturdy shoes and a guidebook. You also need determination, persistence and a discerning eye that can discover the real beauty. Just as Angkor is more than its wat, so too is Cambodia more than its national pride Angkor Wat. Far more than that, indeed. This Southeast Asian country can be an adv...

Climate change is transforming faster than expected

Climate change is transforming the Arctic environment faster than expected and accelerating the disappearance of sea ice, scientists said on Friday in giving their early findings from the biggest-ever study of Canada's changing north. The research project involved more than 370 scientists from 27 countries who collectively spent 15 months, starting in June 2007, aboard a research vessel above ...

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Does your heart race when your credit card bill arrives? Are you one flat tire or one emergency room visit from financial ruin? If you think a secure financial future is out of reach, you're wrong. Let Marianna Olszewski teach you how to love your money instead of running scared from it. Marianna didn't start out rich, happy and fabulous. A strapped-for-cash childhood motivated her to strive for...

Fortune of 2010 Tiger's Year

The Lunar New Year dates from 2600 BC, when the Emperor Huang Ti introduced the first cycle of the Chinese zodiac.   Because of cyclical lunar dating, the first day of the year can fall anywhere between late January and the middle of February. On the Chinese calendar, 2010 is Lunar Year 4708.   On the Western calendar, the start of the New Year falls on Sunday, February 14, 2010 -...